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Events 2008-2012
February 29, 2008. 10.00-17.00. Sustainable Development with Focus on the
Poor: Central Issues for Research and Policy
Planning conference for DevNet. Venue: Eklundshof, Uppsala.
May 7, 2008. The Politics of Land and Gender: Critical Issues and Debates
Seminar with Dr. Nitya Rao, School of Development Studies, University of East
Anglia. Discussant: Dr. Maria Ågren, Department of History, Uppsala
University.Venue: Main University Hall, Uppsala. In collaboration with the
Department of Urban and Rural Development, University of Agricultural Sciences
(SLU).
June 13, 2008. 14.00-17.00. Communicating Climate Change
Seminar organized by DevNet with the Unit of Environmental Communication and
NRML (Natural Resource Management and Livelihoods), the Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences (SLU, and Cemus at CSD Uppsala. Venue: Uppsala Centre for
Sustainable Development, Uppsala.
August 15 – 17, 2008. Nature, Knowledge, Power
International research conference focusing on South Asia, organized jointly with
SASNET (South Asian Studies Network) and the Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences with support from DevNet. Venue: Department of Rural and Urban Studies,
SLU, Uppsala.
See http://old.sasnet.lu.se/uppsalaconf08/
September 17 – 19, 2008. Ecology & Power: Critical Perspectives on the
Discourse on Sustainability and Resilience
International conference hosted by the Human Ecology Division, Lund University.
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Supported by DevNet.
See http://www.hek.lu.se/research/conferences-workshops/ecology-power-2008September 26, 2008., 15.00 – 17.00. Hur skall vi förstå världen – en läkare och
en fredsforskare i samtal om globala utvecklingstrender
Seminar with Hans Rosling and Hans Abrahamsson. Chair: Kenneth Hermele.
Organized in collaboration with School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
Venue: Annedalseminariet, Seminariegatan 1. Aulan, vån 5, Gothenburg.
October 8, 2008. Chiapas efter zapaistaupproret: paramilitärer och folkligt
motstånd
Presentation by representatives of the Mayan organization Las Abejas from San
Pedro Chenalhó, Mexico. José Alfredo Jiménez Pérez showed his video “Acteal:
10 años de impunidad – y cuantos mas?” Venue: CSD Uppsala, Uppsala University.
October 23, 2008. African Cities in a Globalized World: Water as Commodity,
Public Good, and Human Right
Workshop organized by the Nordic Africa Institute, with DevNet support for public
lectures within the workshop.
November 6, 2008. Refugees and Transnational Migration
Lectures with Stef Jansen, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University
of Manchester, and Dawn Chatty, Dr in Social Anthropology and Deputy Director at
Centre for Refugee Studies, Oxford University. Organized by DevNet in collaboration
with Ceifo, the Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations at
Stockholm University.
December 4, 2008. 14.00-17.00. Slaves of Water: indigenous Knowledge and
Experience of Hindu Fishermen on the Floodplain of Bangladesh
Lecture by Dr. Mahbub Alam, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Independent
University Bangladesh (IUB), Dhaka. Venue: CSD Uppsala, Villavägen 16
(Geocentrum), Uppsala. Organized in cooperation with the School of Global Studies
at University of Gothenburg and SASNET, the Swedish South Asian Studies
Network.
April 15, 2009. DevNet National Scientific Committee
Planning conference with the DevNet secretariat, held at CSD Uppsala, Uppsala
University.
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May 14-15, 2009. HIV and AIDS, Political Mobilization and Democracy
Conference at Uppsala University organized by DevNet together with Forum Syd
and Sida Civil Society Center.
Speakers: Alan Whiteside, Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division,
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; May Chazan, Carleton University,
Canada and HEARD, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Veriano Terto Jr,
ABIA, Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association, Brian Lariche, Ozanam House
Batu Arang, Malaysia, and Maj-Lis Follér, School of Global Studies, University of
Gothenburg.
Download conference program at:
http://www.csduppsala.uu.se/old/dokument/Program,_HIV-conference.pdf
and conference report at:
http://www.csduppsala.uu.se/old/dokument/Briefs,_HIV-conference.pdf
October 14, 2009. Climate Change, Power and Poverty
Conference in Uppsala organized by DevNet, with 110 registered participants.
Keynote lectures by Larry Lohmann, author of Carbon Trading; Jimin Zhao from
the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, UK, and Kumi
Naidoo, Director General of Greenpeace International. The program also included
presentations by researchers based in Sweden.
The conference report is available at:
http://www.cemus.uu.se/cefo/dokument/Climate_Change_Conference_Report.pdf
October 15, 2009. Biofuels and Africa: Opportunities and Challenges – the Role
of Research
Afternoon conference organized by NRML (Natural Resource Management &
Livelihoods) Research School, Swedish University of Agricultural Scioences and
DevNet. Invited speakers: Dr. Yona Baguma and Nuwamanya Ephraim, National
Crop Resource Research Institute, Kampala, Uganda.
March 15, 2010. Liberal Peace in Question: Politics of Devolution and
Development in Sri Lanka
Seminar at Frescati, Stockholm University, with Kristian Stokke, professor at the
Department of Sociology and Human Geography, Oslo University. Organized by
DevNet in cooperation with Podsu: The Politics of Development Group at Stockholm
University. An event supported with DevNet-grant.
April 27, 2010. AIDS, Civil Society, Aid and Poverty
Conference 13:15 – 17:15 at the School of Global Studies (SGS), University of
Gothenburg organized by SGS in cooperation with Gothenburg Centre of
Globalization and Development (GCGD) and DevNet.
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Keynote speakers: Professor Tim Allen, London School of Economics,
Development Studies Institute: HIV/AIDS policies in Africa: What works and what
doesn’t? Professor Francisco Inácio Bastos, Fiocruz – Oswaldo Cruz Foundation,
Rio de Janeiro:! All that is solid melts into air: The management and care of people
living with HIV/AIDS in a period of permanent change. Panel discussion with the
speakers and AIDS researchers from University of Gothenburg.
May 4, 2010. Ship Dismantling – Current Problems and Ways Forward
Seminar 9.15-12 at Geocentrum, Uppsala University.
Despite that the majority of the international ship fleet is registered within the EU
and the US, less than 1% of the ships are currently being dismantled in these
countries once they are ready for scrapping. Instead, they are “beached” in
Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, where poorly paid unskilled workers dismantle the
ships under circumstances that are extremely hazardous for both workers and the
environment. Still, the ship dismantling industry represents work opportunities in
these countries and almost everything from the ships are recycled and reused. Is
there scope to improve the existing practices so that ship dismantling could
continue in the current countries in a more environmentally and socially sustainable
way?
The workshop began with a lecture by Prof. Shyam R. Asolekar, Centre for
Environment Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,
followed by a discussion on possible solutions. A broad range of actors were invited
to the workshop, including academics, NGOs, political actors and the business
community. Organized by DevNet.
May 6-8, 2010. A Brief Environmental History of Neoliberalism
Conference at Lund University, and part of a project that seeks to contribute to a
new understanding of the rise, and ongoing crisis, of neoliberalism.
Conference themes included: The agro-food system; Agro-fuels and the new
“energy question”; Ecological imperialisms; Constructing neoliberal spaces; Climate
change and neoliberalism. Extended panels address the topics: Appropriation for
Appreciation: Exploring the changing nature of neoliberal conservation for NatureSociety interactions, and Environmental Histories of the Neoliberal Present:
Managerial, Recreational & Political Ecologies.
Participants included: Harriet Friedmann, University of Toronto; Deborah
Bryceson, University of Glasgow; Eric Vanhaute, Ghent University; Scott
Prudham, University of Toronto & James McCarthy, Pennsylvania State; Bram
Büscher, Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus U, Rotterdam; Ulf Jonsson,
Stockholm University; and Jason Moore, Lund University, Umeå University.
Organized by the Research Working Group on World Ecology, Lund University, and
sponsored by DevNet and LUCID, Lund University Center of Excellence for
Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability. An event supported
with DevNet-grant.
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May 10, 2010. Tillväxt och konsensus? Utvecklingsteorier i dagens bistånd
Seminarium och workshop om vilka utvecklingsteorier som påverkar dagens
policydiskussioner inom svenskt och internationellt utvecklingssamarbete.
Organiserat av DevNet tillsammans med Sida.
Föreläsare: Eva Friman, idéhistoriker, ekologisk ekonom och programdirektör för
Cemus vid Uppsala centrum för hållbar utveckling. Staffan Löfving, antropolog
med erfarenhet av tvärvetenskaplig forskning på temat fattigdom och
utvecklingsteori samt flera konsultuppdrag för Sida. Moderator: Viveka Persson,
Teamchef Globforsk Tid: Måndag . 13.00-14.00 Föreläsning och diskussion. 14.0014.30 Kaffe. 14.30-16.00 Workshop för specialintresserade. Plats: Sida,
Valhallavägen 199. Rum: Hörsalen (föreläsning, kl. 13-14), Djenné (workshop, kl.
14.30-16).
May 10, 2010. Localizing Development: Has the Participatory Approach
Worked?
Two-hour seminar with Ghazala Mansuri, Senior Economist, Development
Economics Research Group, the Word Bank, at Frescati, Stockholm University.
The idea that fostering citizen participation is central to resolving problems of good
governance and development is one that has acquired tremendous force in recent
times. It is the unifying theme which underlies many different approaches towards
localizing development whether in the form of community based/driven projects or
the decentralization of government decision making. In this seminar, the conceptual
foundations of this approach are discussed and an analytical framework in which
civic participation is viewed as a potential solution to specific civil society, market,
and government failures is proposed. The evidence on the efficacy of participatory
approaches to problems of development is reviewed and the ways in which policy
choices for inducing participation is identified as intimately shaped and constrained
by the historical, socio-cultural and political context.
Organized by Podsu: The Politics of Development Group at Stockholm University in
cooperation with DevNet. An event supported with DevNet-grant
May 19, 2010 at 14.15-17.00. Small scale community-based biogas
development in rural areas. With examples from China, Nepal and Indonesia
Worldwide, more than three billion people depend on traditional solid fuels (wood,
dung and agriculture residues) to meet their basic energy needs, contributing to
levels of indoor air pollution well above international standards. Also, Black carbon
(soot) emissions from the burning of traditional biomass for household cooking are
responsible for an estimated 18 percent of global GHG emissions. Accordingly,
biogas development has been put forward as a solution to sustainable energy
provision in rural areas. The household biogas system, in particular, has a potential
to offer significant health, economic, and environmental benefits to millions
of households. However, despite the multiple benefits of biogas and, in case of
China for instance, favorable policies and subsidies, biogas development in rural
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areas has encountered a variety of technological, social, and economic barriers.
Hence, it witnessed a rather slow growth in development and considerable
resistance from households.
In this workshop, three presenters shared different experiences of biogas projects in
rural areas across Asia. The following discussion focused on assessing both the
potential and the challenges of biogas development in the search for more
sustainable solutions to rural energy needs. The workshop was organised at the
initiative of master’s students at the Master’s Programme in Sustainable
Development at Uppsala University.
Presenters: Dilip Khatiwada, PhD Candidate, Energy and Climate Studies,
KTH; Isak Stoddard, Educational Coordinator, CEMUS, Uppsala University; Yi
Yang, Master’s Candidate, Sustainable development, Uppsala University Venue:
room Skåne, Geocentrum, Uppsala.
Organized by DevNet.
May 19-20, 2010. Studying the Agency of Being Governed
Workshop at University of Gothenburg organized by School of Global Studies
with GCGD, University of Gothenburg and with the support of DevNet.
This high level international multidisciplinary workshop on methodology dealt with
the question of how to approach empirical research from the perspectives of
governmentality and biopolitics. International guests:! Akhil Gupta, Veronique PinFat, Christine Sylvester, Christina Masters, Vikki Bell, Arun Agrawal, Sarah
Radcliffe. On May 20: Open panel debate on Global Governance with the same
speakers. An event supported with DevNet-grant
May 31, 2010. The Global Firestorm of Law and Order – On Neoliberalism and
Punishment.
Open lecture with Loïc Wcquant, 18.00-20.00. Hall X, The University Main
Building, S:t Olofsgatan/Ö.Slottsgatan, Uppsala.
Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, and
researcher at Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. A student and close
collaborator of Pierre Bourdieu for two decades, he is the author of Body and Soul:
Notebooks of An Apprentice Boxer (2004), and The Mystery of Ministry: Pierre
Bourdieu and Democratic Politics (2005). His most recent books include Urban
Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality (2008), Punishing the
Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (2008), and Prisons of
Poverty (2009). The discussant, Magnus Hörnqvist, is Associate Professor in the
Department of Criminology, Stockholm University, and author of Risk, Power and
the State: After Foucault (2010).
This lecture was organized by DevNet and sponsored by the Wenner-Gren
Foundations and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala
University.
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June 1, 2010. The Criminalization of Movement: A Symposium on Emergent
Forms and Politics of Poverty.
Symposium 10:00 – 14:00 at Uppsala University, with Loïc Wacquant.
The first decade of the millennium witnessed an accelerating process of
securitization by which states fortified their borders and augmented their lawenforcement machineries while simultaneously relocating (or “outsourcing,” as the
idiom goes) their mandate to discipline and penalize; a displacement of
accountability amidst aggressive reforms for system transparency. This took place
in conjunction with the deepening of disparity spawned in both North and
South. Whereas the issue of poverty alleviation/reduction became confined to
discourses of individual empowerment and responsibility and evolved, as practice,
within the fields of policy and development management of international financial
institutions, the state approach to disparity emerged most prominently within the
administration of justice. The criminalization of the livelihood strategies and of the
social presence of the poor (i.e., the criminalization of the consequences of poverty)
have become an integral part of the securitization of the life-worlds of the non-poor.
This symposium gathered papers on people’s exposure to and contestation of
securitization in different settings but within a context of neoliberal globalization. It
explored ways to assess, and to grapple analytically with the interconnections
between: the criminalization of certain political and social movements, and the
legalization of others; the criminalization of certain migratory movements, and the
legalization of others; and the social and political responses provoked by such
reconfigured and vitalized penal policy mechanisms of the contemporary state.
Organized by DevNet and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology,
Uppsala University.
August 30, 2010. Writing Workshop on Development, Climate, Environment and
Society.
10.15 – 16.00, at Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development, Uppsala University
For PhD students and young researchers working, with critical and encouraging
feedback from scholars working in the same field. Guest resource persons for the
workshop included: Tania Li, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto,
Canada, Francois Fortier, School of International Development and Global Studies,
University of Ottawa, Canada, Michael Eilenberg, Department of Anthropology,
University of Aarhus, Denmark, Jason Morris-Jung, Department of Environmental
Science, Policy and Management, University of California at Berkeley, USA. Coming
from different disciplines within the social sciences, resource persons have
expertise in fields of environmental conservation, development, climate change,
policy making, civil society movements, agrarian expansion, and land reform issues.
Their primary geographic focus is Southeast Asia (participation of persons with
another geographical focus is nevertheless encouraged!). More
information here (pdf).
The event was organized by DevNet and CEFO at CSD Uppsala and the Department
of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University.
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August 31, 2010. Climate Change, Environment and Society in Southeast Asia.
Symposium, 09.15-16.00 at Uppsala University.
What happens when the consequences of climate change and environmental crisis
are felt in Southeast Asia? Highlighting cases from Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia,
this symposium raised important issues with respect to the politics of climate
change, international development, agrarian expansion and civil society. Guest
speakers: Tania Li, University of Toronto, Pamela McElwee, Arizona State
University, Francois Fortier, University of Ottawa, Michael Eilenberg, University of
Aarhus, Jason Morris-Jung, University of California at Berkeley.Students,
researchers, development practitioners, policy makers and other persons with an
interest in Southeast Asia or the general themes of this symposium are warmly
welcomed to participate in the discussion. Participation in the symposium is free of
charge, but space is limited.
The event was organized by DevNet and CEFO at the Uppsala Centre for
Sustainable Development, and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and
Ethnology, Uppsala University.
September 23, 2010. The Failures of Growth and the Degrowth Proposal.
Lecture with Giorgos Kallis at Uppsala University. In this lecture, which attracted an
audience of around 130, Kallis addressed the emergence of the research field
“sustainable degrowth” and the advancements made in this field. Sustainable
degrowth is defined as an equitable downscaling of production and consumption
that increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions at the local
and global level, in the short and long term. Degrowth researchers criticize GDP
accounting and the growth paradigm as unsustainable, and state that human
progress without economic growth is possible. They distinguish between
depression, i.e. unplanned degrowth within a growth regime, and sustainable
degrowth, a voluntary, smooth and equitable transition to a regime of lower
production and consumption.
Dr. Giorgos Kallis is researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and
Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Kallis is currently doing
interdisciplinary research on droughts and adaptation and coevolutionary ecological
economics. In March 2010 he was part of organizing the 2nd Degrowth conference
in Barcelona, Spain. Organized by DevNet.
Thursday, October 21, 2010. Beyond Dysfunctional Readings of African Cities
Public lecture at the University Building, Uppsala University by Professor
AbdouMaliq Simone, University of London and Professor Garth Myers, University
of Kansas. The lecture was co-organized by DevNet and the Nordic Africa Institute.
Thursday, October 21, 2010. Africa’s Informal Workers: Collective Agency,
Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa
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Book Launch at the University Building, Uppsala University. Comments by:
Professor Carole Rakodi, University of Birmingham. The book: Ilda Lindell (ed),
Africa’s Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing
in Urban Africa. Zed Books & The Nordic Africa Institute. The book launch was
organized by the Nordic Africa Institute. The editor is a member of the National
Scientific Committee of DevNet.
November 24, 2010. DevNet National Scientific Committee
Planning conference with the DevNet secretariat, CSD Uppsala, Uppsala University.
November 24, 2010. The Epistemic Violence of Landmarks and Binaries in the
Making of History in Post-War El Salvador
Seminar with Ainhoa Montoya, from at the University of Manchester, at CAMPUS
Engelska Parken, Uppsala University
Widespread uncritical periodisation and binary notions of violence have led to the
concealment of much of the violence in both wartime and peacetime El Salvador. An
examination of the events that occurred prior to the official beginning of the war in
1980 and after the signing of the 1992 Peace Accords, challenges conventional
periodisation. This challenge has implications not just for historiography but also for
efforts that shed light on the pervasiveness of violence in El Salvador in wartime and
peacetime. In addition, while widely used concepts of war and peace – along with
related categories of violence invoked in public discourse (e.g. political
violence/social violence or crime) – support triumphalist views of transition, they
simultaneously render violence highly unintelligible. The notion of ‘transition’ is
likewise critiqued for its inability to reflect the continuities and discontinuities that
have characterised post-war transformations. Based on long-term fieldwork in a
Salvadoran municipio, this paper ultimately intends to yield an understanding of the
violence involved in history-building practices and in the language deployed to
account for both wartime and peacetime violence as well as the transformations that
have occurred in the country’s ‘transition’ from war to peace.
The seminar was organized by DevNet in cooperation with the Forum for Latin
American Studies and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology,
Uppsala University.
November 24, 2010. Nature as Calamity and Development as Triumph: Is the
Idea of Progress Sustainable?
Lecture with Rohan D’Souza at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,
Ultuna, in Uppsala.
Dr. Rohan D’Souza is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy
at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He was awarded his PhD from the
Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His recent publication
includes Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood control in Eastern
India (1803-1946), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2006. His concerns range
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from issues dealing with environmental history, the political economy of nature
conservation and history of technology. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at
Yale University, University of California (Berkeley) and was a Senior Research
Associate at the Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex. More
about Dr. Rohan D’Souza here.
The lecture was organized by DevNet together with The Natural Resource
Management and Livelihoods Research School (NRML) at the Swedish University of
Agricultural Science
November 25-26, 2010. Nature, Poverty and Power: Assessing Challenges to
Sustainable Development
DevNet conference at Geocentrum, CSD Uppsala, Uppsala University
This inter-disciplinary conference explored the interrelationship between natural
resource use, poverty and power, and the challenges that conflicts of interests and
power pose to globally sustainable development.
People in poverty are often identified as exposed and vulnerable to environmental
degradation and disasters, but the power-related aspects of this condition are less
frequently discussed. In countries with high levels of poverty, access to natural
resources are commonly structured by unequal patterns of ownership, production
and trade, in turn largely determined by processes of decision-making on global
arenas beyond local control or influence. Furthermore, poor people in the South are
especially affected by the process of climate change induced in large part by the
consumption and production patterns of the highly industrialized and globally
powerful countries. This conference addressed the institutions and the social,
political and economic dynamics that influence the unequal access to resources and
the various effects this has on people living in poverty.
The conference focused furthermore on how people in poverty strive to ensure
livelihood security and access to natural resources, while facing local, national and
global power structures. This included the strategies used by people in poverty to
increase their power in political and economic decision-making on different levels,
as well as the institutional options available to them for political participation and
impact.
Keynote speakers: Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University
Enclave, Mohamed A.R. Salih, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus
University Rotterdam and, Department of Political Science, University of
Leiden, and Kiran Asher, International Development, Community and Environment,
Clark University. The concluding plenary discussion with a panel of chairs of parallel
sessions was chaired by Susan Paulson, University of Lund.
Find conference invitation at:
www.csduppsala.uu.se/devnet/conferences/DevNet_%20Conference_invitation.pdf
Program:
www.csduppsala.uu.se/devnet/conferences/DevNet_Conference_Program.pdf
Keynote speakers information:
www.csduppsala.uu.se/devnet/conferences/Keynote-speakers.pdf
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Parallel sessions descriptions (with abstracts of presentations):
www.cemus.uu.se/cefo/devnet/DevNet%20parallel%20sessions.pdf
March 14, 2011. Principled Governance for Poverty Alleviation in Small-Scale
Fisheries: A global perspective
Open seminar at 14.00-16.00 with Dr. Ratana Chuennpagdee, Memorial University
of Newfoundland, Canada.
Small-scale fisheries play a significant role in alleviating global poverty. They employ
millions of people around the world and are major providers of food to a growing
human population. Still, small-scale fisheries harbour a lot of poor people, with
different realities of poverty. Poverty alleviation requires, first and foremost, the
understanding of what poverty is and what it means to the fishing people and their
families, in their own context. Secondly, poverty in fisheries may be originated
outside of the sector; thus a broad perspective is needed to alleviate poverty.
Finally, bold but principled governance initiatives may be necessary to address
poverty, especially in extreme cases, and to prevent small-scale fishers from being
trapped in a vicious circle of poverty . These conclusions are drawn from 15
empirical studies of poverty in small-scale fisheries around the world.
Venue: Room 105 Frescati Backe, Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm
University, Svante Arrhenius väg 21 A. The seminar was organized by DevNet and
the Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University.
March 15, 2011. Closed workshop with Dr Chuennpagdee and a small group of
researchers and PhD students at the Dept. of Systems Ecology and the Dept. of
Political Science at Stockholm University.
Two events supported with DevNet-grant.
March 23, 2011. Faith and Development: The Role of Religion in Changing
Societies
Att religion spelar en stor roll i världen i dag uppmärksammas alltmer av politiker,
beslutsfattare, forskare och företrädare för olika organisationer. För att förstå
politiska, ekonomiska och sociala skeenden menar många att det är nödvändigt att
även förstå vilken roll religion och religiös tro spelar för människor i olika samhällen
och kulturer. Seminariet utgick från frågan om religionens roll i världen i dag och
vilken roll trosbaserade organisationer spelar i utvecklingssamarbetet. Kan vi
fortsätta att exkludera religion när vi gör analyser av landsituationer och politiska
skeenden? Vilken påverkan har religion på arbete för jämställdhet?
Medverkande:! Katherine Marshall, Georgetown University, tidigare
Världsbanken; !Gerrie Ter Haar, professor Religion and Development of Social
Studies, Nederländerna; !Lisette van der Wel, handläggare religion och utveckling,
ICCO, Nederländerna; !Jan Henningsson, Senior Advisor, UD; !Elisabeth Gerle,
professor i etik vid Uppsala universitet och verksam i Svenska kyrkan; !Björn
Andersson, biträdande enhetschef, UD. Med reservation för ändringar
Lokal: Grillska Huset, Stortorget 3, 2 tr, Stockholm Tid: 23 mars kl 09.30-16.00
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Find video recordings of speakers at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8F9Rfeyf08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-OctZc3LHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHaOpkwkPMk
April 11, 2011. DevNet Workshop on Rural Livelihoods Research in SubSaharan Africa
9.15-16.00. Venue: Norrland II, Geocentrum, Villavägen 16, Uppsala
A one-day workshop on rural livelihoods research in Sub-Saharan Africa. The
workshop was open to researchers and PhD students interested in or currently
involved in livelihoods-related research in Sub-Saharan Africa. The workshop had a
specific networking focus, where we met to get to know more about each other’s
work and to discuss collaboration and co-operation.
While rural livelihoods in poor countries constitute a well-known interdisciplinary
research field internationally, researchers in this field in Sweden and the Nordic
countries have not had much contact with each other. In this workshop, current
topics in livelihoods research in Sub-Saharan Africa will be discussed, and an aim is
to create contacts between Swedish and Nordic livelihoods researchers in this field.
Livelihoods can be defined as ‘the capabilities, assets (stores, resources, claims and
access) and activities required for a means of living’ (Chambers and Conway,
1992:7). Rural livelihoods research encompasses studies in/about a broad range of
topics, such as rural agriculture, rural natural resource use, and labour migration
from rural to urban areas. The workshop welcomes discussions on a broad range of
topics, focusing on rural people’s need to support themselves and their families, and
how various types of livelihoods, together with socio-economic factors, policies and
spatial and temporal factors affect their chances of securing sustainable rural
livelihoods for themselves. Organized by DevNet.
June 15, 2011. The “Weakness of Strong Ties” and the “Meaning of the
(Remitted) Gift” – Rethinking Sociality in the Anthropology of Migration and
Transnationalism
Open lecture, 14.15-16.00. Lecturer: Stephen C. Lubkemann, Associate Professor
of Anthropology and International Affairs, The George Washington University: Dr
Lubkemann’s most recent book, Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social
Condition in War (University of Chicago Press 2008), re-conceptualizes
displacement and proposes a new approach to the study of social transformation
and political mobilization in war-torn societies. The lecture was presented by The
Development Research Network on Nature, Poverty and Power (DevNet), and cosponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundations and the Department of Cultural
Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University. Venue: Engelska Parken Campus,
Uppsala University, room Eng2-1077. An event supported with DevNet-grant.
August 31, 2011. Participating in Extraction? Indigenous Peoples and the
Ambiguities of Natural Resource Governance in Latin America
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Lecturer: John-Andrew McNeish, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway. In
the seminar, critical consideration was made of the current status and controversies
of indigenous participation in Latin American extraction and infrastructure
projects. John-Andrew McNeish is the author or Flammable Societies: Studies in the
Socio!Economics of Oil and Gas (Pluto Press, 2011). Venue: 15-17, F702, House F,
7th floor, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. The seminar was
organized by DevNet and The Politics of Development Group at the Department of
Political Science at Stockholm University. An event supported with DevNet-grant.
September 6, 2011. Green Futures – from Utopian Grand Schemes to MicroPractices
The “light greening! of the current societal and urban structures is not deepreaching enough to handle the threats posed by climate change, uneven global
development, and growing socio-economic segregation. They call for visions of
alternative futures and more deep-reaching approaches. At the same time, in the
wake of the “triple crisis!, social movements are growing that challenge the
predominant social order and open up for new ideas on green futures. This one day
symposium discussed utopian thought and experimental approaches to the
organisation of society and the built environment. Speakers: Erik
Swyngedouw, Lucy Sargisson, Katherine Gibson, Alexander
Vasudevan, Constantin Petcou, and Doina Petrescu. Introduction by Karin
Bradley and Johan Hedrén. Venue: Arbetets Museum, Norrköping. An event
supported with DevNet-grant.
October 20, 2011. Environmental Struggles, Colonial Legacies and the
Construction of Identity
Presentations: Susan Paulson, University of Lund, Land, bodies and racial
identification in Latin America; Libby Robin, KTH, Stockholm, From the deserts the
prophets come: Science, Deserts and Identity in Australia; Heather Goodall,
University of Technology, Sydney, Environment, ethnic diversity and power on the
Georges River, Sydney.
October 21, 2011. Land Grabbing in Africa: Global Resource Scarcity and
Competition for Survival
One-day workshop at Geocentrum, Uppsala University. To secure future access to
food and biofuels, private and state actors in wealthy countries (including the oil
states) are increasingly buying or leasing farmland in the Global South, primarily in
Sub-Saharan Africa. Some argue that this is recreating old colonial patterns of land
ownership and distribution of power, threatening livelihoods of the rural poor. Others
hold that such agricultural investments provide much needed means for economic
development. In this one-day workshop, we explored the phenomenon of land
grabbing from theoretical and practical perspectives.
Presentations: Philip McMichael, Cornell University, A food regime analysis of the
land grab; Kenneth Hermele, Lund University, Land grabbing in relation to
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energy, climate and the current resource crises; Patrick Bond, University of
KwaZulu Natal, Land grabbing in practice, experiences from Africa; Atakilte
Beyene, Stockholm Environment Institute, Land rights and corporate social
responsibility; Michael Ståhl, Steelfox Consulting, Concluding
observations. Moderators: Mats Hårsmar, Nordic Africa Institute and Susan
Paulson, Lund University.
Find workshop report at:
http://www.csduppsala.uu.se/devnet/workshops,%20seminars/DevNet,%20Land%
20Grabbing.%20Workshop%20Report.pdf
March 9-10, 2012. Emergent cities: Conflicting Claims and the Politics of
Informality
Symposium, March 9, at 9-17, Uppsala University. More than ever, cities are sites of
conflicting demands on space, resources and membership. In the politics of the
urban space, structures of informality, legality and illegality are used by official
authorities to plan and define legitimate claims and the space of the city. However,
there are also different forms of counter-politics. This symposium addressed the
various processes through which marginalized people are creating space in the city;
sometimes manifesting an emergent insurgence that challenges existing hierarchies
and whereby people claim new forms for urban and national development.
Presentations: James Holston, Department of Anthropology, University of
California, Berkeley: The Right to the City and Urban Citizenship; Ananya
Roy, Department of City and Regional Planning Education, University of California,
Berkeley: Making Postcolonial Futures: The “Slum-Free” Cities of the Asian
Century; Edgar Pieterse, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape
Town: Knowledge Imperatives of Southern Urbanisms
Workshop, March 10, at 9-16.30, Uppsala University. Closed session with paper
presentations.
Organized by DevNet and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology,
Uppsala University. The symposium was part of URBANITY WEEK, focusing on the
dynamics of city-making from below in the urban South. URBANITY WEEK
was organized in cooperation with the Nordic Africa Institute and the Department of
Human Geography, Stockholm University.
Access videos of keynote lecturers:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CSDUppsala/videos
Monday April 16, 2012. Political Ecology as the Study of Resource Extraction
Conflicts and Waste Disposal Conflicts
Seminar, 14-16, at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm
University, with Joan Martinez-Alier, Professor at the Department of Economics
and Economic History at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Joan Martinez-Alier’s
has over the past 20 years gained recognition as Europe’s foremost scholar of and
spokesperson for the new field of “ecological economics.” His current research
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focuses on ecological economics and languages of valuation, political ecology,
environmental history, environmental justice and the environmentalism of the poor.
He is the author of Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society (1987)
and The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation
(2002). Currently he is the President of the International Society for Ecological
Economics. Organized by DevNet and The Politics of Development Group at the
Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. An event supported with
DevNet-grant.
April 19, 2012. Informed Consent? Evidence of the Substantial Dimension of
Prior Consultations from Bolivia and Peru
Seminar, 14-16, at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University,
with Almut Schilling-Vacaflor.
The right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) is not only a procedural right,
but it also has a substantial dimension. It should help to protect all kinds of human
rights of the affected local populations and the environment. But, which has been
the real incidence of the consulted groups and persons in shaping the planned
legislative and administrative measures? Did the consultations result in designing
more human rights- and environmental-friendly legislation or projects? For
assessing and discussing these questions the presentation draws on data about the
recent participatory elaboration of the regulating norm of Peru’s new Consultation
Law (pre-legislative consultation) and about the procedure and results of prior
consultations in Bolivia’s hydrocarbon sector.
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor has a Ph.D. in Cultural and Social Anthropology from
the University of Vienna, Austria. Her current research focuses on constitutional
changes in Bolivia, natural resource governance and rights of indigenous peoples.
Schilling-Vacaflor has published extensively on indigenous people’s rights, natural
resource governance and participation of peasants and indigenous people. She is
currently working on a project concerning the implementation of free, prior and
informed consent in hydrocarbon sector in the Andean countries. Organized
by DevNet and The Politics of Development Group at the Department of Political
Science, Stockholm University. An event supported with DevNet-grant.
April 27, 2012. Grasping Sustainability. A debate on Resilience Theory versus
Political Ecology
Friday, 27 April 2012, 14.15-17.00, Hambergssalen, Geocentrum, Uppsala
University.
Sustainability is a contested concept, of acute relevance to current debates on how
to ensure human and broader biological survival with limited earthly resources.
Resilience theory and political ecology are two influential analytical approaches.
Both address the connection between environmental and societal conditions, but in
quite different ways. Resilience theory aims to analyze the capacity of socioecological systems to withstand shocks from phenomena such as ecological
degradation and climate change, and to rebuild and renew themselves afterwards.
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Political ecology sees inherent conflicts in the quest for sustainability, since socioecological systems at all levels are highly unequal. Conflicting interests and power
relations must therefore, according to this approach, be a key focus of the analysis.
Debaters: Garry Peterson, Stockholm Resilience Centre, and Alf Hornborg, Human
Ecology Division, Lund University. Moderator: Eva Friman, CSD Uppsala.
Access video of the debate:
http://www.csduppsala.uu.se/2012/video-and-slides-from-grasping-sustainability/
or at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_NCSQ1qNac
May 31, 2012. Democracy and Development: A Disputable Pair
International symposium, May 31, 2012, at 10-17 hours, !Hambergssalen,
Geocentrum, Villavägen 16, Uppsala University.
The symposium addressed the meanings and realities of democracy and
development and their linkages to globalisation and power. What meanings are
assigned to these concepts? How do they connect?
Such difficult questions and possible answers were illuminated and debated by
experienced and concerned scholars of various generations and backgrounds:
Neera Chandhoke, University of Delhi; Yusuf Bangura, UNRISD, Geneva; Beppe
Karlsson, University of Stockholm; Seema Arora-Jonsson, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences; Lars Rudebeck, DevNet, Uppsala University; Olle Törnquist,
University of Oslo, (chair)
Find call at: http://www.csduppsala.uu.se/2012/democracy-development/
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